Vital Author Resources

Striving to make your book the best that it can be!

After all, not only is your reputation at stake but so is ours. In the interest of our authors, we try to provide excellent resources. Whether you are a first-time author or a seasoned pro, these resources should be bookmarked and kept on hand for all your writing needs. There are some tools on our site already that will help you before you start to write, or enable you to properly format what is already written. We try to offer the best external links possible. If you have a site to recommend, please let us know. Click on the orange title links to view and download the pdf guides, or to see or order that resource.

Various Author Tools: This page has a summary of the many exclusive tools from Tovim Press such as Words-to-Pages, Minimum Retail List Price, and Royalty Estimators, and Book Cost Calculator. These can be an invaluable aid to determining how many pages and what format your print book should be in, and how much to charge for it. The links are with the descriptions.

Choosing A Publisher: This explains the various publisher options available to the independent author, and goes through their pros and cons. See why Tovim Press is the best option in publishing!

Book Options: A page complete with price sheet to see all of our available print book options.

Links to Other Resources

Although none of the following sites are connected to Tovim Press, we offer the following links to help our authors. It is mandatory to make your work the best, so legal photographs or artwork are a must, as well as proper spelling, grammar, punctuation and other things to use. If you want to save money, have a knowledgeable, yet impartial and honest friend or relative proofread your work. (Maybe not your mother!)

Jewish Resources

Torah, Hebrew, Editorial, Design, and Other Book Creation

Reliable Torah and Hebrew sources, and Jewish professionals in the book creation business.

Marketing

Aside from an author web page and book promotion on our website, it is mostly up to our authors to promote their own work. These are some resources to help market your book. If you don’t want to do it all yourself, we can help for a smaller service fee, and we offer promotional packages that you can use to help promote your books yourself. (See our various promotional packages.) If you need a full-service marketing specialist, you might want to think about hiring an agent.

Aside from an author web page and book promotion on our website, it is mostly up to our authors to promote their own work. We have several resources to help market your book. If you don’t want to do it all yourself, we can help for a smaller service fee, and we offer promotional packages that you can use to help promote your books yourself. (See our various promotional packages.) If you need a full-service marketing specialist, you might want to think about hiring an agent. We offer promotional website and social media packages from our parent company Tovim Media, LLC, a full-service web agency.

We can provide you with promotional materials like Press Releases and media kits to send to bookstores, radio stations and publications that may want to sell your book or interview you. We can also send your book out for professional reviews.

Public Domain and Royalty-Free Graphics:

It is extremely important that any graphics you may use in your book or more especially on your cover, are your own, or not used by anyone else. If someone else owns the copyright on work you use without permission, not only is it illegal, but it is considered stealing according to Torah law! Unlawful use is a pathway to getting sued.

If you do want to use something that is under copyright, you must get written permission from the owner and should make a statement to that effect in your copyright notice. We use Pixabay for a lot of our work. Do not use pictures in websites like Pinterest, unless you get written permission. There are many places that post pictures and old advertisements claiming to be under the Fair Use Act, and this is very shady.

There are “Creative Commons” resources, such as Wikipedia, but even for these, you must make sure which license they are using. Some still require attributions, others do not. Only if something is listed as being released into the “Public Domain”, is it available for use without permission. Attributions may be listed along with the picture or separately, sometimes on the copyright page and at other times with a picture, depending on what the Terms of Use are. Below are Royalty-Free and Public Domain sources for quality graphics.

Formatting and Fonts

Ideally, for the body of text, and especially for ebooks, you should choose a common, easy-to-read “True Type” or “Open Type” font. (These file extensions are .ttf or .otf.) However, for chapter headings and book cover titles, your imagination is the limit.

Identify and Match a Font:
This enables you to choose a font that you like but don’t have, and then download a match to your computer. (Great for title creation.).https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator

Identify Fonts
See all the fonts you have on your computer and what file they are.https://wordmark.it/

Convert Font Collections
If you receive a font collection that is TTC or DFONT that refuses to install, it needs unpacking or conversion and here is the place to do that.https://transfonter.org/ttc-unpack

Book Creation Guides Online

Book Construction Blueprint
Tovim Press recommend this pdf ebook Book Construction Blueprint by publisher Joel Freidlander. It is a definite “need to read” for any Independent authors designing their own books. It can be found here:https://www.thebookdesigner.com/bcb/